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Friday, March 25, 2016

Vineyard Wine Configuration Application for Linux has been released

Wine version handling, better 64-bit support and bug-fixes!

Vineyard for Ubuntu and Linux has seen some development during the past few
weeks and has received bug-fixes and new features! Some of the more
advanced functionality – that was previously only supported by editing
the wrapper.cfg file – is now easily accessible!

Here’s a list of some the most visible changes:

Creating a prefix has been overhauled:

You can now choose between creating a 64-bit or 32-bit prefix.

A specific version of Wine can be selected to be used for the prefix.

Installed versions of Wine are auto-detected (looks through $PATH, /opt and PlayOnLinux folders).

Progress indication works (finally).

64-bit support is now auto-detected from the Wine version.

The main tab now shows which Wine binaries/version and arch (64/32-bit) is used.

The “Run executable” tool works again for .exe files in modern distros.

Added newer versions of MS Visual C++ to install list.

Launching a terminal in a prefix now works correctly again.

The menu icon has been changed to the modern gtk menu icon.

And since a picture is worth a thousand words:

New builds in the PPA

I’ve overhauled the packaging of Vineyard, and we now have
builds back up for all LTS (long term support) Ubuntu releases going
back to 12.04 (Precise) as well as for 15.10 (Wily) and 16.04 (Xenial).
16.04 deprecated the python-support package in favor of dh-python (in
line with Debian), so Vineyard can now be built using both.

The name of the vineyard-testing PPA has also been changed to “PPA for Vineyard” as it really is the current stable PPA; the link is the same, so there’s no need to change your APT configuration.